Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South AfricaEdwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to new activism. The book is a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and indispensable for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy. |
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Page ix
... thing for you to have your rights and equality in the law , it's quite another to have them each day in the street , at work , in the bar , in public places where you socialize and where you cruise . " Here was a head of police ...
... thing for you to have your rights and equality in the law , it's quite another to have them each day in the street , at work , in the bar , in public places where you socialize and where you cruise . " Here was a head of police ...
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... things ? When I call myself ' gay ' , do I mean the same things as middle - aged white men and women who participated in a homosexual subculture in the 1950s and 1960s ? Is it right to tell a history in such a way that makes of these ...
... things ? When I call myself ' gay ' , do I mean the same things as middle - aged white men and women who participated in a homosexual subculture in the 1950s and 1960s ? Is it right to tell a history in such a way that makes of these ...
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... thing . But then , when the Grand closed at 7.15 , the more adventurous bunch would move on to The Delmonico on Riebeeck St , which was a favourite sailor's pickup joint , a big Spanish building with a band that was great fun . Or you ...
... thing . But then , when the Grand closed at 7.15 , the more adventurous bunch would move on to The Delmonico on Riebeeck St , which was a favourite sailor's pickup joint , a big Spanish building with a band that was great fun . Or you ...
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... thing provided we behaved . So we behaved . ' Certainly , this ethos required a fair amount of self - censorship on the part of the ' entertainers ' them- selves . Hannah remembers , for example , that Gay women , and particularly butch ...
... thing provided we behaved . So we behaved . ' Certainly , this ethos required a fair amount of self - censorship on the part of the ' entertainers ' them- selves . Hannah remembers , for example , that Gay women , and particularly butch ...
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... things and a great danger to us . At all costs we had to remain hidden ! - So strongly did Jackie feel this that , when the false rumour spread around the staffroom that she was having an affair with a colleague , ' I just got into my ...
... things and a great danger to us . At all costs we had to remain hidden ! - So strongly did Jackie feel this that , when the false rumour spread around the staffroom that she was having an affair with a colleague , ' I just got into my ...
Contents
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Moffies and the laager | 87 |
Gay and lesbian life histories in contemporary Cape Town | 140 |
ABANGIBHAMAYO BATHI NGIMNANDI | 158 |
Gay publishing in South Africa | 225 |
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